Davos Mistresses Have it Rough

Economist Joseph Stiglitz is a regular fixture at the annual circlejerk that is the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland – unfortunately for his wife, Anya Schiffrin.

She’s blogged her experience for Reuters and I found this post on how wives, mistresses and secret mistresses are treated like second class citizens to be absolutely brilliant and hilarious…

But if wives have it bad, mistresses, who are invited under a variety of guises and usually wind up with a white name tag, have it worse. Typically their men are swallowed up by a tsunami of meetings and interviews and don’t have the time or inclination to take their mistresses around with them. Often these men go to high-level dinners to which wives and mistresses are not invited. The skinny and beautifully dressed Davos Mistress typically hangs around the auditoriums waiting for a couple of minutes with her man. While waiting, she keeps her eyes peeled looking to search and destroy the competition.

The only thing worse than a white pass, is no pass. Rumor has it (heard first-hand from more than one jealous Davos Mistress) that there are legions of women — let’s call them the aspiring mistresses — who do not get a coveted Davos invitation and badge and so can not enter the Congress Centre but who come anyway. They book a hotel room and prowl the streets hoping to snare their prey. They are the worst enemies of the Davos Mistress.

Go read the rest, I know you want to…

Source:

Jealous Davos Mistresses (Reuters)